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All roads lead to Acton for Fall Fair this weekend Acton Fair will be officially opened this weekend by Doug Palmer president of the Canadian National Exhibition and past president of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies President and directors have been busy for the past 12 months preparing for this year two day event which is kicked Friday night at the arena performance Well known entertainer will be MC for a program of professional entertainment featuring an accordionist magician acrobats juggler dance team ana musicians The evening will be capped with the crowning of Miss Acton Fair 1973 by Miss Valerie Mitchell Miss Acton Fair of President H Hinton will welcome the crowd at the Friday night performance which will be preceded by a parade and concert by Acton Citizens Band fresh from their first place win at the Canadian National Exhibition Of course the hall exhibits the midway and concessions will all be open Friday night as well Saturday Is the big day and officials of the fair have been in work parties all weekscttlngupfortheblg show There a bigger midway and concessions will all be open Friday night as well Saturday is the big day and officials of the Fair have been In work parties all weeksettingupfortheblg show There s a bigger midway than last year and the fair grounds are laid out so a large main street runs down the centre The afternoon starts off with a big parade at noon featuring five bands including Acton Citizens Band Knights and the Burlington Teen Tour Band all large groups and the committee has now received confirmation from the Sandhill Pipe Band and the Georgetown Girls Pipe Band that they will participate as well as the Georgetown Air Cadets Float entries have been pouring In this week and there II be lots of horses in the procession which la assembling at the high school grounds rather than at the CN station which has been completely tom down Three trail riding clubs are taking part and there is also a six horse hitch in the parade The parade will proceed down Mill Street to the park grounds and It Is quite likely the Old Time Fiddlers Contest will be going full tilt In the arena before the tall end of the parade reaches the fair grounds The old time fiddlers committee of R Davidson Bill and Ed Watson arc making a special effort to make this year competition one of the ever so it has been to the arena bo weather won t interfere It is open only to fiddlers from and Erin and townships and there Is no entry fee First prize Is and the H trophy second prize is third fourth and fifth The baby show another popular Satur day afternoon fair feature in the arena begins at p m and there are three sheep shearing demonstrations on the grounds during the afternoon another new wrinkle being Introduced this year to give the Fair The grounds will be busy all day Saturday at the horse ring where lumpers and hunters will be busy well as light and heavy horses and ponies Beef and dairy cattle always make a good showing and the poultry show Is showing signs of Ming an exhibition In Itself There is also a large number of entries in the pets and hobby crafts Special hall displays are always in teresting especially the school children work and homecrafts The baked and canned products never fall to make mouths water The Junior Farmers and clubs take a very active part in the Acton Fair and again their displays will be a highlight are so many events crammed Into the two day Acton Fair there Is neither the space or facility to mention them all For those who still nave energy left after two days of renewing acquaintances strolling the grounds and helping children on the midway there the Fair dance on Saturday in the arena where the always popular Shaynes are providing the music Clinic success NINETY NINTH YEAR NO 11 ACTON ONTARIO WED SEPT 1973 Four stand for mayor in October 1 election An exciting four man race for the mayor chair has saved what might have otherwise been a lacklustre Inaugural election the new borough of North which is made up of Acton Georgetown and township Georgetown Mayor Bill Smith Esqueslng Reeve Tom Hill and Georgetown Coun Cillers Bill Hunter and Phil have entered the mayoralty race Nominations closed at Monday Three acclamations Three of North our on the Region council nave already been filled as Deputy reeve Lcn won acclamation in Ward Esqueslng Similarly In Georgetown Reeve Rick Morrow was unopposed In Ward and Deputy reeve Ernest was acclaimed in Ward 3 The fourth regional seat in North Halton will be decided in a race between Acton Reeve Garnet Pat and Deputy Reeve Peter Marks in Ward 1 Acton Mayor Duby Coun clllors Chapman and Barry former clerk administrator Joe Hurst and TOM WATSON Acclamation Bd of Education former councillor Bob Drink waiter are In a way battle for the two area council seats in Ward Acton Rum return Former Deputy Reeve Russell Miller has returned to take on incumbent clllors Dick Howltt and George Maltby in Ward where two area councillors will be elected Newcomer John Hole joins Incumbent Councillors Era Hyde and Roy Booth in the race for two area seats in Georgetown Ward 3 In Ward A also Georgetown incumbent Councillors Harry Levy and Mike Armstrong will try to hang on to their scats against the challenge of G Ripley Tom Watson a school board campaigner will represent Ward 1 Acton and Ward 2 Esqueslng on the new Region Board of Education He was unopposed in nominations for the position Incumbent Ernie chairman of the present county board won acclamation to represent Wards 3 and In Georgetown Hart of Georgetown was acclaimed to the Halton Region Separate School Board Plan gala region inauguration in a Burlington high school be found Thursday October IB with a outlined preparations reception to follow at the underway for the rcg plush new Holiday Inn Reg council takeover and ion Chairman Allan Masson M pleased with the told Council last things are proceeding week I really have any said Premier BUI explained In Davis Lieutenant Governor put together the Ross McDonald members of 8 parliament and past county men te P wardens will be the elected people to put the meal guests Fifteen hundred skeleton people are expected to attend j The Chairman explained he hoped for the historic event was being held in Burlington because it North representatives was the only place in the showed in early county meet us leadership was the catalyst that brought the seven municipalities to nether I was very proud of them he said Selection of persons to fill regional jobs will come only recommended council ate its support for Mr Mas son and do everything in its after all positions have been committee has looked at sites the applicants in Oakville Burlington and not be filled until after l 1974 he said Do you foresee regional power to make regional council headquarters government a success remaining in Milton asked Councillor Dick made no firm reply but said a steering We intend to be just cooperative as before added Reeve Tom Hill have been screened by a selection board that board has made recommendations to the regional council and council has approved them he promised He said however that he expected council would look at all applications if It looked Milton Wc have considered the hical position of Mil but we have also that the bulk of the population in the region is south of High way Deputy reeve Coxe Lions swimming pool gets council support Apply for cable TV An application for cable television in Acton was pre sented Tuesday in Ottawa to the Canadian Radio and Transport Commission The application was instituted by JonnGoySr The actual hear ing is In March Georgetown Cable TV is also applying to sen Acton They had written for Acton council support but Tuesday night councillors agreed they would support the local HARBINGER OF hockey season The Acton Mens Pee Wees held their hockey sticks aloft in an arch at the wedding of Maureen Downey and Ruddy Holmes The teams appearance outside the church was a surprise The marriage was Saturday August 25 at St Alban church and there s a full account inside The Acton Sabres Junior hockey team held their first practice in Guelph this week Stuckey Hold up building for creek study A swimming pool and three Mr Inscoe reported the tennis courts got council centennial committee is plan approval Tuesday a survey to determine a But not before councillor project However he felt Bill Coats wondered how the council should help make it Lions clubs swimming pool easier for the Lions to go project would tit in To the ahead with their own project committee s We should be 100 percent After assurances from the mayor and centennial committee member Barry Inscoe council passed two bylaws authorizing the sign of agreements with the County board of education The Indoor pool would be constructed at the high school on request of the Lions club and the tennis courts on the Robert Little on request of the recently re organized tennis club Town project While councillor Coats quickly agreed a swimming pool project was fantastic he asked We set up a centen nial committee They are to set up a project and haven t yet Now the council is sup- major project think there room for anything else Should we be doing this to body we have appointed Mayor Duby pointed out the Lions club decided on their own project and had asked council This is the first concrete step or something feasible by next year well have a good result sure He felt the centennial committee could support this project or another one He thought centennial commit tee members were well aware of developments The Lions are showing hind it around observed Mr Chap man in support of the resolu tlon We don want to end up with nothing Ok courts In support of the second resolution on tennis courts Inscoe presented a docu and financing This was re ferred back to committee and the bylaw to enter into agree ment with the board passed speedily can Mavor Building applications in Environment until a study on the Black Creek Is completed best interests or the commun ity to strongly support the Response to Monday blood donor clinic at Georgetown was fantastic according to Connie Eighteen PagesFifteen Cents of the Georgetown and district Red Cross Four hundred and ninety seven donors showed up at Holy Cross auditorium and of them were rejected to make a total of 457 the largest clinic ever held in Georgetown Many of the donors were from Acton and district Mrs Nleuwhof said and from points as far away as Toronto and Streets operations In Toronto hospitals on the following day also helped bring out the donors Mrs felt The largest turn out In the past had been In 1971 but this fell to 380 in the next clinic She paid special tribute to the tcfepone committee and the newspapers who helped make the clinic a success with their appeals Next clinic is Monday December Plan to meet the candidates Acton Chamber of Com merce is tentatively a Meet the Candidates Night at Acton high school auditorium on Wednesday September All arrangements nave not been completed but secretary Mrs Betty Eastwood said candidates for councillors from Ward One Acton and the two regional council candidates for the same ward have agreed to participate The four candidates for mayor have yet to be con tacted Further Information will be available in next week Free Press The Chamber feels the meeting will go a long way towards explaining the new regional set up for those who are confused as well as giving candidates a platform to express their views Grass roots thriving Mayor Duby Tuesday at council expressed his pleasure at the number of had attended a meeting subdivisions Kingham Hills of the administration com and Bovls have been learned Tuesday Eight lots on Churchill owned by Alteo Con from the tennis club he Robert Little school Wc keep floundering outlining space requirements grounds his application council could support Georgetown at a later date Tuesday was the deadline for receiving applications A full orPntalinn will hooliM cleared up John Martin of the Ministry the Fen iron Clerk Grant Usher proved up explained the application would be turned down because of the Black Creek not the town sewage plant There had been a study of the creek and more tests were to be made there soon Then a report would be received by the town Musi know Councillor com The mayor added that the it important for the creek study Is very town to know Its own pertinent to us and to George- Icing capabilities There are M bum protection projects now a limit of 8 candidates running for population for the town elections here The grass f roots politicians ipalhy he declared with a However additional lots roots politicians have In were being created in smaller there no apathy and here Branciewicz properties and grin the Ministry had a concern And he hopes for the same about these lack of apathy on election A directive will go to the day Committee of Adjustment to Its marvellous how many turn down any further In Acton have indicated their cations until the Black Creek candidacy he said I wish study is received he said everybody well town We like the small town at he Bell enlarges Acton office THIS CANADIAN BUILT Astra owned and driven by Bert Straus of Kitchener was an attraction at the closing events of the Toronto International Dragway over the weekend The only pure pro stock in existence it was barred from the S Spring Nationals by the National Hot Rod Association because pro stock regulations state entries must be American made or an import and it was built in Canada which apparently is neither category Straus fought the ban and it was revoked He has invested in the car and trailer and his wife and two children comprise the crew The powerful subcompact has a 600 motor throbbing under the hood as it pulses down the dragway three miles east of Acton Paul Murr photo expansion of the Bell Canada charges switching office on Church Acton and Milton and Acton St Acton to provide an and Acton Bell additional telephone already have toll lines to keep pace with the free calling between Acton growth of the town and and Bell says it is spending to add will pay eroded nearly an hour to building and to the month for the extended parking lot Car necessary equipment for the service extension of local calling thinker Construction i Ltd of Kitchener was awarded the building contract Work Is expected to be completed early in 1974 Minor collisions Saturday There were two collisions in town on Saturday both in the same area First occurred shortly after on Fellows St as one car pulled out onto the street from a driveway which ac cording to police had ob scured vision The driven were Joe Bray with estimated CM to the right rear of his car ViUnef f of Toronto with mated damage The second accident calling known as extended area sen Ice which local manager Lloyd says will start some time in 1975 Long distance charges between Acton Milton and Guelph will be eliminated when extended area service starts When polled recently more than per cent of those answering the Bell questionnaire in Acton said owner were Robert Grace Poplar Ave with estimated damage to his car and Frances Hubert Young St with no damage to the car Restore fire truck Council gave Acton agreed to them the towns Firefighters Association a unused 1937 Studebaker Are good price Tuesday and truck for one